By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – Hanae Mori, a pioneering designer who brought Japanese motifs to the global haute couture stage and created the wedding dress worn by Empress Masako, had died aged 96. Famed for her butterfly designs, Mori was born in the rural prefecture of Shimane, recalling in later life how the stylish …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed a Palestinian in predawn clashes in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, Palestinian medics said. The Israeli army said he was armed and shooting at soldiers, something the Palestinians denied. Witnesses said the clashes erupted when Israeli forces arrived to guard Jewish worshippers visiting Joseph’s Tomb, a …
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By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Torrential rain slammed the west and north of New Zealand’s South Island for a third straight day on Thursday, forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes and triggering road and school closures and land slips. Coming top of weeks of damp weather, the latest rainstorms are worsening conditions in New …
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By Ann Wang and Aleksander Solum NANGAN/DONGYIN, Taiwan (Reuters) – On Taiwan’s windswept Matsu islands, close to China’s coast, one topic has been driving conversations in recent days: prospects of an invasion by China since it began military exercises in response to visits to Taiwan by U.S. lawmakers. Held by Taiwan since the defeated Republic …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Henriette Chacar GAZA (Reuters) – When Israeli missiles started landing in Gaza in early August, shattering glass and collapsing buildings, Jouman Abdu put on headphones, covered her eyes with a blindfold and stretched on the couch. The 8-year-old Palestinian girl said she came up with this ritual to escape the …
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By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces said on Thursday they had beaten back a Russian attack in the southern region of Kherson, while the death toll from Russian shelling of Kharkiv city in Ukraine’s northeast climbed as the nearly six-month war grinds on without let-up. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet Ukrainian President …
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(Corrects paragraph 15 to remove erroneous reference to plans for Guterres to visit Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station. Russia’s defence ministry referred to his visit to Ukraine, and did not say he planned to visit the plant.) By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian forces said on Thursday they had beaten back a Russian attack in the …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Russian spacewalk outside the International Space Station ended hours earlier than planned on Wednesday after a cosmonaut discovered an electrical issue with his spacesuit, U.S. and Russian officials said. Oleg Artemyev was roughly two hours into a six-hour spacewalk when voltage levels in his spacesuit’s battery began to unexpectedly …
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By Hyonhee Shin and Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -Talks with North Korea should not be for political show but contribute to establishing peace, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Wednesday, just hours after the North test fired two cruise missiles into the sea. Speaking at a news conference to mark his first 100 days …
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By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – Attacks on Brazil’s indigenous people and invasions of their lands by illegal miners and loggers, mainly in the Amazon, increased dramatically in 2021, escalating an already “terrifying” situation, the Catholic Church’s Indigenous Missionary Council (Cimi) said on Wednesday. In its annual report on violence against indigenous people, Cimi detailed …
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